The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-06-02

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GENERAL NEWS.
Doings Throughout the World ant
the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest Tefe
graphic Reports on Subjects
Of interest.
A plot to assassinate the Sultan Of Tur.
key was discovered last Thursday.
Three deaths and four cases Of yellow
fever at Key West are reported for last
week. ::
The Canadian government is increasing
the defenses and military force of British
Columbia.
Trueman, the illinois blooded live
stock man, reached Helena from the east
last week.
| The president and party reached safely
their camping ground in the eAdirondacks
last Friday.
! The recently elected commonwealth
attorney of Norfolk county, New York, is
a colored man.
The Pennsylvania railroad is going to
build tunnel under the Hudson river at
New York at cost of 81, 100000.
Last week AL Herrick, an eight-year-
old boy at Anoka, Dakota, was kicked to
death by horse in his fathers stable.
Foreign bondholders of the Kansas
Pacific railroad are gong to sue Jay
Gould, Russell Sage, and others for $S, ,0O0-
600.
Lord Colin Campbell has gone into
bankruptcy. OF $4,000 of liabilities
5000 are for costs of his recent divorce
suit.
Ben Perley Poore, the famous journal
list and writer, died last week inWashing-
ton, D. c., and bis remains were taken to
Boston.
Six men who went out on the river at
Montreal, Canada, in row boat, had too
much whiskey aboard and all but one was
drowned.
Tie long lockout of clothing cutters by
the Philadelphia clothing exchange was
ended last Friday, about 600 men reeum-
ing work.
The bark Macleod, arriving at Phila-
delphia last week, brings news of ter
rible cholera scourge raging at Buenos
Ayres, s. A.
Two cargoes of steel rails-22, 800 tons,
or 1856 car-loads-for Northern Pacific
branches, were unloaded at Superior City,
Wis, a few days ago.
Mexico has subsidized line of steam
ers to carry mails free of expense to the
United States, between San Diego, CAL,
and Lower California.
Olympia Brown Willis is to be tried
for stufing the ballot box at Racine, Wis. !
Mrs. Willis is the leader of the woman !
suffragists Of Wisconsin.
Pheuro- pneumonia exists to an alarm |
ing extent among the neat: cattle in Scot
land and their importation has been pro-
hibited until further notice.
At the close of performance Of the
Wild West show in London last week
Queen Victoria had the honor of being
presented to Red Shirt and two or three
papooses.
The stables of the South End Belt Line
in New York were entirely destroyed by
fire last Friday, with 1900 horses and
nearly all the cars in the building. Loss,
81 ,325,O00.
The Oregon & Transcontinental rail-
road has commenced suit in the o. s. cir
cult court to restrain the Northern Pa
cifc from building the Spokane & Pa
louise railroad.
A violent shock of earthquake, accom-
panied by the usual oscillations and
occurred at the City of Mex
leo on Sunday last, causing much fright
and but little damage.
At the Progressist-Liberal conference
at Brussels last week resolution against
universal suffrage was adopted, but the
conference pronounced in favor of the
franchise to all who could read and write.
The Opera Comique, in Paris, was des-
troyed by fire last Wednesday, May 25th,
and nearly 200 persons are missing. Most
Of the actors escaped, but many people in
the upper galleries were crushed to !:
death.
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